The loss of two of John Madin’s many Birmingham creations will please and anger in unequal measure, but just serve to preserve the city’s love for the bulldozer.

Here, we have pulled together a gallery of buildings knocked down in the city.

Some are prettier than others, but all would have courted similar controversy in their day.

Among them is the old New Street station, the 19th century Grand Theatre in Corporation Street and the old Central Library which stood from 1882 until 1974 – perhaps the building most mourned by many in the city.